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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 19 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 61025 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 73 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 Mr. 9 italian 7 music 7 Wagner 7 Opera 6 New 6 London 5 german 5 Paris 4 french 4 York 4 Verdi 4 Miss 4 King 4 Italy 3 work 3 opera 3 drama 3 Signor 3 Patti 3 Mozart 3 Mme 3 Mapleson 3 Madame 3 Lohengrin 3 House 3 Greek 3 Faust 3 English 3 England 3 Don 3 Company 2 time 2 illustration 2 art 2 Weber 2 Tristan 2 Theatre 2 St. 2 Smith 2 Schreiermeyer 2 Salome 2 Rossini 2 Pelléas 2 Mélisande 2 Music 2 Mrs. 2 Metropolitan 2 Mdme 2 Mdlle Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 2941 opera 2615 music 2426 time 1736 work 1700 man 1374 day 1371 year 1301 part 1155 performance 1037 scene 978 way 967 hand 960 voice 960 stage 948 season 948 life 922 thing 919 nothing 899 composer 876 word 869 one 856 act 841 singer 819 art 802 drama 800 night 770 room 765 people 732 house 721 place 689 love 672 eye 667 moment 640 woman 609 world 580 song 576 name 557 fact 554 story 549 door 545 something 543 public 543 character 531 form 521 success 520 end 510 theatre 502 friend 490 manager 490 artist Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 11060 _ 1715 Mr. 1337 Margaret 1082 Wagner 1004 Opera 713 Vol 678 New 647 Logotheti 573 York 532 I. 520 La 517 Mrs. 503 Mme 502 Patti 497 Madame 495 M. 486 Mdme 474 . 466 Signor 456 de 442 Van 425 II 425 Christine 415 Torp 415 London 402 Rossini 395 Paris 383 Lushington 379 Raoul 367 Mozart 364 Miss 322 House 305 Metropolitan 296 opera 289 Mdlle 285 St. 280 Lady 277 Company 276 Tristan 276 Italy 259 Don 258 Maud 258 Bonanni 255 Erik 250 Richard 244 Verdi 235 English 227 Garden 225 England 224 Faust Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; 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"What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 margaret had no doubt 2 margaret was not quite 2 margaret was not sure 2 words leave no doubt 1 _ did not sufficiently 1 _ had no chance 1 _ has no root 1 _ is not entirely 1 _ is not exactly 1 _ is not fitly 1 _ is not strong 1 _ is not very 1 _ was not half 1 _ was not only 1 act is no less 1 art is not creditable 1 arts made no special 1 composer was not only 1 composers have no more 1 composers were not liberally 1 day is no less 1 days was no great 1 house was not ready 1 houses are not such 1 life was no man 1 life was not rich 1 man does not usually 1 man is no musician 1 man is not popular 1 man was no longer 1 margaret did not even 1 margaret had no choice 1 margaret had no difficulty 1 margaret had not even 1 margaret had not yet 1 margaret was not anxious 1 margaret was not yet 1 men are not delicately 1 men are not liars 1 men is not worth 1 music did not apparently 1 music does not immeasurably 1 music gives no help 1 music had not before 1 music has no other 1 music is no more 1 music is not at 1 music is not concerned 1 music is not only 1 music took no part A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 10521 author = Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion) title = The Primadonna A Sequel to "Fair Margaret" date = keywords = Bamberger; Cordova; Creedmore; Donne; Feist; Greek; Griggs; Ida; Lady; Logotheti; Lushington; Madame; Margaret; Maud; Miss; Mr.; New; Primadonna; Schreiermeyer; Stromboli; Torp; Van summary = ''How small the world is!'' Margaret said in a low voice as she looked When Ida had pulled Margaret away from the railing after watching Mr. Van Torp while he was talking to himself, the singer had thought ''It''s very good to hear a man like you say that,'' Margaret answered. ''Well,'' said Mr. Van Torp, looking at her, ''I should think you did!'' ''That''s correct,'' said Mr. Van Torp, smiling and looking at the lady. ''Yes,'' Margaret said, after a moment''s hesitation, ''I know Mr. Van Margaret looked thoughtfully at Lady Maud before she answered. ''Yes,'' said Margaret; but she thought of the story Logotheti had told ''Tell me,'' Margaret said, ''was that story about Lady Maud in the same and men, and she said that Van Torp was kind, and good to people in ''There are three persons asking for Mr. Van Torp, my lady,'' he said id = 25838 author = Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion) title = Fair Margaret: A Portrait date = keywords = Bonanni; Cordova; Donne; English; Greek; Logotheti; London; Lushington; Madame; Margaret; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Paris; Rigoletto; Rosa; Rushmore; Schreiermeyer; Versailles; good; look summary = Mrs. Rushmore knew no more about Lushington''s family than Margaret. ''Madame Bonanni said she would see me this morning,'' Margaret ''I have come to sing to her,'' Margaret said, with a little impatience. When Margaret said ''please'' in a certain way, Lushington''s free will ''I congratulate you,'' said Lushington, looking at Margaret and trying ''I think she is the most good-natured woman I ever knew,'' said Margaret Logotheti smiled and shook his head gently, keeping his eyes on Mrs. Rushmore''s face, all of which she took to mean incredulity on his part. Margaret was singing the lovely music and looking, Logotheti thought, Logotheti and little Madame De Rosa came up to Margaret at once. ''I don''t like to look at it,'' she said, avoiding Logotheti''s eyes. Margaret and Lushington, and the elderly prima donna, and even Mrs. Rushmore, are all much more like you and me than Constantine Logotheti, id = 38534 author = Edwards, H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) title = The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School date = keywords = Barber; Bellini; Donizetti; Edition; Illustrations; Italy; London; Mozart; Naples; New; Paris; Rossini; Verdi; author; italian; opera summary = Rossini''s first work, written when he was sixteen years of age and to which it belonged), and he wished Rossini to compose an opera for his Barbaja, for whom Rossini composed so many admirable works, gave it at composed six years later, it was an opera so far as regards form, and fifty years later heard at least once in an opera attributed to Rossini Rossini''s operas of the year 1812 were two written for the San Mosè of ITALIAN OPERA UNTIL THE TIME OF ROSSINI. ITALIAN OPERA UNTIL THE TIME OF ROSSINI. Rossini, in fact, introduced into serious opera the forms which comic separated the musical pieces in the works composed by Rossini''s subject of his own operas, Rossini said that much of what he had written successful operas by Rossini and other Italian composers (_L''Elisir_, G.)._ With numerous Illustrations and a Map. Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, 3_s._ 6_d._ Second Edition. id = 34302 author = Galloway, William Johnson title = The Operatic Problem date = keywords = England; France; House; Italy; King; National; Opera; art; italian; operatic; theatre; year summary = criticism of those who look upon all theatres and opera houses as "This style of work (opera) is a new style, born a few years ago at opera house, as was the case for a certain period in France. Opera House produced a quantity of works, and at the same time Drury examine how continental nations fare under the ægis of State-aided Art. Italy, Germany and France present the most characteristic instances, and these have seasons of opera at various times of the year. _Lucia di Lammermoor_ from letting the music of the opera for 50 francs The Berlin Opera House receives a yearly subvention of 900,000 marks, or At the National Theatre, Prague--48 operas and 6 ballets. Most of these theatres produce every year one new work at least, and The Paris Opera House, like all other theatres in France, and for the id = 16488 author = Gilman, Lawrence title = Debussy''s Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score date = keywords = Arkël; Debussy; Fate; Golaud; Maeterlinck; Mélisande; Pelléas; Yniold; illustration; music summary = _Pelléas et Mélisande_, based on the play of Maeterlinck, the history of Arkël, says in _Pelléas et Mélisande_, like persons "whispering about a effectively insisted upon by Maeterlinck than in _Pelléas et Mélisande_. Debussy''s _Pelléas et Mélisande, drame lyrique en 5 actes et 12 "You look like a mere child," he says, and the _Mélisande_ theme is As the third scene opens (before the castle), the _Mélisande_ theme is of a fragment of the _Fate_ theme at Mélisande''s words, after Pelléas _Golaud_, _Mélisande_, and _Fate_ themes are heard. evolved from the _Mélisande_ theme (the _Pelléas_ motive forming a and a strange variant of the first _Mélisande_ theme (page 212, measure The ''cellos intone the _Mélisande_ theme as Pelléas tells her that he the _Mélisande_ theme noted on page 82 of the piano score. flute and clarinets) the _Pelléas_ theme (page 289, measure 2), the the _Mélisande_ theme (pages 290-292). id = 38268 author = Gilman, Lawrence title = Aspects of Modern Opera: Estimates and Inquiries date = keywords = Debussy; Mr.; Mélisande; Pelléas; Puccini; Salome; Saëns; Strauss; Tristan; Wagner; drama; music summary = composer of imaginative orchestral works and of chamber music, he is drama at the expense of the music, but--as was the case with Wagner In choosing the subject for this music-drama, Puccini set himself a effective dramas--is their ideal suitability for musical translation. possible musical means that will appropriately express it: to-day we it be cheerfully owned, to the glory of musical art--through Wagner''s Wagner''s later music-dramas to which one can point, by reason of their to write dramatic music for single voices and instruments with nothing _Mélisande_?--a scene for which Debussy has written music of almost characters in music-drama, is "almost anti-lyric," he speaks with possible in music-drama a use of the voice which permits of an music-dramas of Wagner a frankness of melody in the vocal writing music-drama into which Debussy has transformed Maeterlinck''s play For in the musical setting of Debussy, Maeterlinck''s drama has found id = 19958 author = Henderson, W. J. (William James) title = Some Forerunners of Italian Opera date = keywords = Caccini; Ferrara; Florence; Footnote; Italy; Mantua; Orfeo; Orpheus; Poliziano; Ugolino; century; drama; italian; madrigal; music; play; song; time summary = study of the lyric drama in Italy prior to the birth of opera, and to drama, the "Orfeo" of Poliziano, unquestionably a lyric work, is the The history of music at the court of Mantua begins at least as early as production of the first Italian secular and lyric drama at that court. system and hence it never appears in the art music of their time. note" and who sang the polyphonic art music of the time. solo parts of Poliziano''s lyric drama consisted of music of the better already noted, that this was the type of musical plays performed in way into Italian music, even that composed by the Netherland masters who madrigal was acquiring general popularity as a form of dramatic music, madrigal drama was utilizing in a novel manner the musical form from Music, in sixteenth century lyric dramas, 164 id = 7834 author = Hight, George Ainslie title = Wagner''s "Tristan und Isolde": An Essay on the Wagnerian Drama date = keywords = Beethoven; Brangäne; England; Footnote; Greek; Isolde; Isot; King; Kurwenal; Marke; Tristan; Wagner; art; drama; english; german; italian; love; motive; music; scene; word; work summary = go far beyond the limits of music and dramatic art, and to enter different elements, words, acting, music, in a natural relation to one expression, gesture, poetry, and music are all arts of movement in has led to a false and unnatural form of art; in the drama music can words as forming a basis for musical expression is to place one of work of art, the rest of Wagner''s doctrine follows directly. music does reveal the nature of things in a way different from words [Music: _Tristan und Isolde_, ACT III. A work of art like _Tristan und Isolde_ can never be understood Wagner''s view of the relation of music to words has been the subject Wagner himself insists that music can never express a musical hearer of a work like _Tristan und Isolde_ will expression, not of the Tristan drama alone, but of all music since id = 5995 author = Krehbiel, Henry Edward title = Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time date = keywords = Abbey; Academy; America; Company; Conried; Damrosch; December; Der; Die; Don; English; Faust; February; Grau; Hammerstein; Herr; House; January; Lohengrin; London; Mapleson; March; Maretzek; Metropolitan; Mme; Mr.; Music; New; November; Opera; Patti; Seidl; Signor; Theater; Verdi; Wagner; York; french; german; italian; season summary = 1907-08 the Metropolitan Opera House in New York completed an existence performance of "The Beggar''s Opera" in New York, the original home of and Wilson company of English opera singers, who came to New York in The first opera house built in New York City opened its doors on rich and cultured citizens of New York to build the Italian Opera House, Opera House in 1883, one of the New York newspapers reported Mme. Patti [The operas performed at the Academy of Music in the season 1883-1884 New York at the Astor Place Opera House four years after its original Opera House he gave a "spring season" of six performances in one week, at the end of the third year there came a brief season of Italian opera Opera House for his second New York season, and he was driven to the New York, having been performed by two Italian opera companies and in id = 35162 author = Lardner, Ring title = Gullible''s Travels, Etc. date = keywords = Beach; Bess; Bessie; Bishop; Garrett; Hatch; Messenger; Missus; Mr.; Mrs.; Palm; Wife summary = "All right," says Mrs. Hatch, "go to your old lodge and spoil Well, Mrs. Hatch called up the next night and says Jim had the tickets Finally Pat comes in and says it''s one o''clock and he''s got to close up, "And got a little knowledge o'' French," says Mrs. Hatch. "Yes," says the Missus, "but Mrs. Hatch won''t think we''re very polite to "They got it all balled up the night I seen it," says Bishop. Bishop says he would have to go, but the Missus ast him to stay to "He''s got some favorite place a ways south," says the Missus. "I don''t like to charge nothin''," I says, "when I know they ain''t no "Are you goin'' to stay long?" says Mrs. Jake to my Missus. "Well," says the Missus when we got there, "it''s time to wash up and go id = 175 author = Leroux, Gaston title = The Phantom of the Opera date = keywords = Angel; Box; Carlotta; Chagny; Christine; Daae; Erik; Mme; Moncharmin; Music; Opera; Paris; Persian; Philippe; Poligny; Raoul; Richard; Vicomte summary = not yet turned Christine Daae out of doors by hearing her this evening "Still, that doesn''t let us know how the Opera ghost came to ask you While the old man told this story, Raoul looked at Christine''s blue Little Christine asked her father if he had heard the Angel of Music. The first time that Raoul saw Christine at the Opera, he was charmed by While Christine remained locked in her room, Raoul was at his wit''s end in her hand, Christine, raising her head, saw the Vicomte de Chagny in seen coming out of Christine''s dressing-room one evening. Raoul saw Christine stretch out her arms to the voice as she had done, "Raoul," she said, "forget THE MAN''S VOICE and do not even remember its "Oh, Christine," said Raoul, "my heart quivered that night at every "Christine," said Raoul, rising, "you tell me that you love me; but you Erik!" said Christine''s voice. id = 36143 author = Mapleson, James Henry title = The Mapleson Memoirs, 1848-1888, vol I date = keywords = Company; Costa; Covent; Drury; Faust; Garden; Giuglini; Gye; Italian; Lane; London; Madame; Majesty; Mapleson; Mdlle; Mdme; Mr.; New; Nilsson; Opera; Patti; Royal; Signor; Smith; Theatre; York summary = of the new Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden, just rebuilt, in order years, or even longer, at the Opera-houses and other theatres in London, The success of _Faust_ at the Royal Italian Opera was so great that it rehearsal at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden, where the season Wood could only reply that he would not sign with Mapleson and Gye. There was no money made that season at the Royal Italian Opera; whilst theatre seven times every week (four for opera, three for tragedy), from The new theatre opened on 28th April, Titiens appearing as "Norma;" and that city just in time to commence the opera the following Monday, when On my return to New York for the spring opera season I produced About this time the building of the new Metropolitan Opera-house had fortunes with the new Metropolitan Opera-house the following season. id = 36144 author = Mapleson, James Henry title = The Mapleson Memoirs, 1848-1888, vol II date = keywords = Academy; Chicago; Colonel; Company; Dr.; Francisco; Gerster; Hauk; London; Mapleson; Mdlle; Mdme; Mr.; New; Opera; Patti; Ravelli; San; Signor; St.; Vol; York; italian summary = must have Patti to fight the strong attraction of a new Opera-house, saw announced to sing the opening night at the new Metropolitan Opera House. On the following night we performed _Norma_ at Brooklyn, with Mdme. Patti appeared in _Ernani_ to a 10,000-dollar house, Mdme. We performed the opera of _Lucia_ that evening in Salt Lake Theatre in On the opening night the Grand Opera-house presented a spectacle of On that evening we performed the opera _Puritani_, in which Mdme. When the arrival of Patti became known in New York great excitement appearance at the New York Academy of Music, great preparations were The following account of Patti''s _début_, which appeared in the New York off-night and an opera worn to bits, the public interest in Miss Patti''s The following night _Aida_ was performed with the great cast of Patti, That on the night of said day, and while the Opera Company id = 46587 author = Newmarch, Rosa title = The Russian Opera date = keywords = Balakirev; Boris; Borodin; Court; Cui; Dargomijsky; Empress; Glinka; Igor; Imperial; Ivan; King; Korsakov; Life; Moscow; Moussorgsky; Opera; Petersburg; Poushkin; Prince; Rimsky; Rubinstein; Serov; St.; Stassov; Tchaikovsky; Theatre; Tsar; Wagner; french; italian; music; russian; work summary = earlier phases of Russian music, and the operas that have appeared since Russian Opera at Drury Lane last year, Rimsky-Korsakov''s early Musical life in Russia at the time of Glinka and Dargomijsky. years later Serov composed a popular opera on the subject of Judith, an music to the first Russian comic opera, _Taniousha or The Fortunate played more or less useful minor parts in the musical life of St. Petersburg and Moscow during the second half of the eighteenth century. four-act opera to a Russian text called _The Invisible Prince_, which music, he wrote at this time a few piano pieces and two songs to Russian of the masterpieces of Russian music--his opera _The Stone Guest_. experiment of basing an opera upon the forms of the national music as a Balakirev left no legacy of opera, but his influence on Russian music as of the music of this opera was utilised in later works. id = 15369 author = Runciman, John F. title = Old Scores and New Readings: Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians date = keywords = Bach; Bayreuth; Beethoven; Brünnhilde; Byrde; Don; Giovanni; Handel; John; Lohengrin; Matthew; Mozart; Mr.; Parsifal; Purcell; Verdi; Wagner; Weber; german; italian; music summary = early music to be as beautiful as any ever written, as expressive, and music; but though Handel wrote more great choruses, his debt to as Wagner insists that in music-drama only mad persons should speak; passion, and expression of English words, the vocal music of Purcell is brief compared with the love music, besides having a great deal of For Handel''s best music is in the songs, which rarely find coming of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Weber, and Wagner has only characteristic of the great men, of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, music, that he lived in the fine old world when stately men and women an early Wagner music-drama. now--that is, like an early Wagner music-drama--but as Weber intended Wagner''s music and of his drama. In all Wagner''s music-plays there is shown an astonishing may be the art with which music-drama or play or story is set before id = 31880 author = Scrici title = Physiology of the Opera date = keywords = Brown; George; Harry; Miss; Mr.; Smith; donna; gentleman; illustration; lady; opera; tenor; time summary = The tenor, basso, prima donna and baritone may be considered as Sometimes the tenor is seen riding out with the prima donna, with whom a winter night; until the young gentlemen have jammed their opera hats Another effect of a beautiful prima donna, is to make young husbands, admiring the courage of the little tenor (the outlaw), which they and the prima donna to follow him up in order to raise his head on her ill-fated young man is placed by the side of Miss Smith''s mother, a that prima donna against the whole world; whereupon Miss Smith with one the word "stupid," Miss Smith makes no reply, but merely looks at Mr. Brown as if she had not the slightest idea whatever that a very personal the point of cutting off his head, but a very prima donna like looking he is just going to be married to the prima donna like looking lady, id = 1487 author = Shaw, Bernard title = The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung''s Ring date = keywords = Alberic; Bayreuth; Brynhild; Fafnir; Fricka; Godhead; Gods; Gold; Gunther; Hagen; Loki; Mimmy; Night; Rhine; Ring; Siegfried; Wagner; Wotan; fall; german summary = The Niblung''s Ring by Wagner to the long-delayed completion of Night when the music of Night Falls On The Gods was added, was an attempt to three), The Valkyries, Siegfried, and Night Falls On The Gods; or, in were no higher power in the world to work against Alberic, the end of it Wotan wrests the ring from Alberic, the dwarf delivers a lurid and But from Brynhild no hero can spring until there is a man of Wotan''s the gods and ruling the world through the ring, Wotan is no longer Wagner had to create Wotan as the anvil for Siegfried''s hammer; and work of Jupiter, just as Siegfried does of Fafnir, Mime, and Wotan; and the blow by which Siegfried breaks the god''s spear is the end of Wotan theme is introduced at the end of The Rhine Gold to express Wotan''s hero id = 16248 author = Streatfeild, R. A. (Richard Alexander) title = The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. date = keywords = Brünnhilde; Count; Der; Die; Don; England; English; Faust; Gluck; Gounod; Handel; Italy; King; Les; Lohengrin; London; Massenet; Meyerbeer; Mozart; Mr.; Paris; Rossini; Sullivan; Tannhäuser; Verdi; Wagner; Weber; french; german; italian; music; opera; work summary = French operas, works of tragic import, treated with all the intricacy ever at war in his earlier operas, musical beauty and dramatic truth. music-loving people of Naples when they found that the opera which they little work written by a Neapolitan composer, Duni, to a French modelled upon an earlier French work which had already been set to music works, written for the Paris stage, show the influence of the composer Weber''s last opera, ''Oberon,'' is one of the few works written in recent the most characteristic part of the work is, after all, the love music works produced at the Paris Opera, may be passed over as comparative musical reasons for the instantaneous success of Verdi''s early operas. The effect of Wagner''s music upon German opera has points of resemblance to Wagner''s later works, and the music follows his composer''s while to produce it as a one-act opera, in which form it id = 32979 author = Van Vechten, Carl title = Interpreters date = keywords = America; Carmen; Farrar; Fremstad; Garden; House; Louise; Mary; Metropolitan; Miss; Mme; New; Nijinsky; Olive; Opera; Paris; Salome; York; french summary = itinerant opera company to sing in an ill-rehearsed performance of two in America Mme. Fremstad appeared in the rôle, singing it, indeed, more human in song, grander and more noble in opera, than that of Mme. Tetrazzini, but the public as a whole prefers to hear the latter, the only other opera Mme. Fremstad had ever sung in French was _Carmen_, The singer told me that she went to work on this opera with fear in her But it was in the closing scene of the drama that Mme. Fremstad, like the poet and the composer, achieved her most effective On the occasion of Mme. Sembrich''s farewell to the American opera stage she appeared as Flora Previous to this time Miss Garden had never sung this opera in Before she appeared as Mélisande in New York, Miss Garden was a little Feodor Chaliapine, the Russian bass singer, appeared in New York at the